IBM unveils software that brings public cloud to private datacenters
IBM unveils software that brings public cloud to private datacenters.
IBM unveiled a product today that’s designed to help enterprises use open source technologies to bring a cloud deployment model to their private datacenters.
Appropriately called Cloud Private, the system is designed to help businesses orchestrate modern applications on their existing infrastructure using Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry, a pair of popular open source tools. It’s a move by the tech company to try and provide a consistent technology platform for building applications, so it’s easier for business users to move their workloads to and from the public cloud.
This is technically the second version of Cloud Private, which IBM launched as an open source project earlier this year. This release includes a number of important features, including support for containers like WebSphere, DB2, and MongoDB. That’s particularly important for customers who have legacy workloads and want to move them to a more modern platform.